Honorable Mentions

Four of the notebooks that we tested -- the AMS PowerCD 8500, Chem USA ChemBook NB 5400, Micro Express NP52P133, and Micro International Mint 5200 -- have integrated CD-ROM drives and floppy drives. The other notebooks have either an external floppy drive or a CD-ROM drive and a floppy driv e that you must swap if you want to use them. The trade-off here is that the integrated systems are a little heavier and thicker than their swapping counterparts.

If you want the big picture , IBM's ThinkPad 760CD and Zenith's Z-Note GT have NTSC/PAL video I/O so that you can plug a TV into the notebook. This lets you entertain a room full of viewers via a wide-screen TV.

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Floppy and CD Integrat ion

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The Big Picture

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